After years of operating horrific battery hen egg factories,
where millions of hens are barely able to move inside tiny, crowded cages,
Buckeye Egg Farm, Ohio's largest egg company, has been ordered to close!

The Ohio Department of Agriculture told Buckeye it has to
begin closing its battery sheds, due to years of violating its operating permits
and breaking environmental regulations. Buckeye Farm is appealing the decision
and has been granted a temporary stay of the shutdown order. Buckeye Egg Farm
has claimed they would have to "bury" chickens in landfills if they have to
close two barns a week.

In 2000, when Farm Sanctuary rescued 1,500 hens from a Buckeye
facility that was hit by a tornado, neither the government nor the company did
what was necessary to ensure animals did not suffer. After hundreds of thousands
of birds suffered without food, water or shelter for 15 days, the company
bulldozed the cages and buried the birds alive. Please insist that the nearly 15
million hens imprisoned within Buckeye's walls not be made to suffer any more
because of this company's wrongdoing! Please send polite, insistent letters to:

*Urge them to allow enough time for every bird to be treated
humanely. Ask that rescue groups such as Farm Sanctuary be permitted to recover
as many birds as possible. Insist that any birds who must be destroyed be
humanely euthanized. No cruel approach is acceptable.

Homes for Chickens Needed!

If the Buckeye Egg Farm agrees to release birds to animal
protection groups, we must be ready to launch a massive rescue and adoption
effort immediately. If you can provide a safe, loving, permanent home for
rescued Buckeye hens, please contact us. Adopter must be willing to drive to a
hen rescue center if adopting smaller numbers of birds — or Farm Sanctuary will
help pay for the transport of birds that are being adopted in groups of 100 or
more. Adopters must complete an adoption application, available online at
http://www.farmsanctuary.org/adopt/form4.htm . For further information, please
e-mail: shelter@framsanctuary.org or call 607-583-2225 ext. 221.